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01-07-2015, 11:49 AM | #21 (permalink) | |
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Maybe when I retire, I'll finally sit down and learn the fundamentals of theory and kind of 'connect the dots' so to speak. Then I'll go find me a pretentious jazz nerd and put him to the test.
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01-07-2015, 11:54 AM | #22 (permalink) |
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I use to do that all the time. It's such an excellent learning tool. To this day I can pretty competently play along to any style of music with the only real exceptions being hard core bebop and chicken picking country.
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01-07-2015, 12:08 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Ugh. Thats a rough one. Zakk Wylde (along with all the other greats like Roy Clark, Buck Owens, etc.) blew me away when I first heard "Farm Fiddlin".
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01-07-2015, 02:03 PM | #24 (permalink) | |
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I've been trying to learn chicken picking since I got my new telecaster. So brutal, especially after spending your whole musical life addicted to the pick.
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01-07-2015, 05:17 PM | #25 (permalink) |
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I'd say the primary difference is that self-taught musicians have to obviously push themselves. Nobody's doing it for them, and that kind of motivation outlives what might be instilled by a tutor. It can be difficult to stay focused on the hobby if you don't have an established environment to engage in it.
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01-07-2015, 10:20 PM | #26 (permalink) | |
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01-07-2015, 10:57 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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I took lessons for about three and a half years for guitar, and I think that I wouldnt be anywhere near where I am now, and probably wouldn't even know where to start with songwriting. The way my lessons would always go would be, I'd pick up a song show it to my teacher and we'd learn it together. Usually between songs he'd teach me techniques and scales and I'd slowly progress on those. Eventually I got to the point where he'd show me a scale, play some chords and I would improv over it for the full half an hour switching off with my teacher. At the end I was learning jazz, and that really got me ready for playing for jazz band and being able to think a lot quicker on my feet, so even if I didn't fully form the chord I could manage, and my improvising had come a long way. Right now I'm taking a really extended break, but I hope to get back into it soon.
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Re: the actual education and its relation to musical prowess. Playing something 'perfectly' according to the tabs or sheet (or writing your own) versus free-handing, is gonna be really awesome and well done but lack the mistakes giving music character. Many great sounds in individual tracks were originally mistakes. I ultimately lean towards self-taught as superior.
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